I know I won’t be able to lift during lunch tomorrow, so I thought I’d get some extra exercise in tonight. Charmaine met me at the gym, but decided to hit the treadmill while I swam.

It was sort of crowded when I got in around 7:40. Not long after I started swimming, I was forced to share my lane. Luckily, the girl that got in my lane could swim very well. That only lasted for about 300 yards until the boyfriend-girlfriend combination got out and left me the center lane.

Swim:
400 Free warm-up
8 x 100 Free @ 2:15 (coming in @ 1:15)
100 Free easy
8 x 50 Kick @ 1:30 (coming in @ 0:50)
100 Free easy
200 Free warm-down
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2000 yards

Well, I headed back to the pool after work. I must be nuts.

I ran into Kyle at the gym. He told me more about the situation with Mitch. I think I finally understand a little bit of why he decided to leave Bungee Labs. Kyle says that they are basically making Mitch their number 2 guy. This all means that even though Bungee Labs has a better opportunity for overall growth (by far, IMHO), the personal opportunity that Mitch has may be better. Imagine that Bungee grows 10 times as much as Mitch’s new company. If he has more than 10 times as much ownership in the new company, he makes more money than he would at Bungee, even though Bungee grew so much more. Plus his salary must have gone way, way up.

I’m pretty sure that deal wouldn’t have convinced me to leave. First of all, I am not fit to be the one of the top dogs at a company yet. That offer alone would have told me that the company wasn’t going to do well. But even if it was purely a money thing, I’m not sure that would do it for me. I want to be a part of what Bungee Labs is building. I really think it’s going to have a profound impact on software in the not too distant future.

Enough rambling.

Swim:
500 Free warm-up
4 x 100 IM @ 3:00 (coming in @ 1:30) — this was hard. I should do more of it.
100 Free easy
5 x 50 Kick @ 1:30 (coming in @ 0:55)
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1250 yards

Mitch is quitting. This is not the best news I’ve heard recently. It gave me incentive to hit the pool after work tonight. Wow. It was crowded. At one point there were 8 people in the pool. 4 of the people (3 girls, 1 guy) looked like they were just out of high school. They were pretty fast. I was impressed when one of the girls swam a 50 Free in just over 30 seconds. It was nice having those guys there, because I had to be faster. Charmaine came down, but she forgot her swim gear, so she ran on the treadmill instead. It seemed to be just as crowded in that area of the gym.

Swim:
300 Free warm-up
5 x 100 Free @ 2:05 (coming in at 1:10) — yes, the clock was working again
5 x 50 Kick @ 1:30 (coming in at 0:50)
200 Free
4 x 50 Free @ 2:00 (coming in under 0:30)
100 Free
100 Kick
100 Free
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1850 yards

After a few hours of work (on a Saturday) I decided I would head to the gym for some swimming. Charmaine was at a wedding reception in Bountiful, so there was no reason to go home.

I’m sure this will come as a surprise (not): the swim clock is broken again. It only lasted 2 days this time. That’s very impressive. I’m just glad the suit spinner is still working. They added a rim at the top of the cage to help hold things down when they spin. I think it’s a good idea. I hope it doesn’t break again, but who are we kidding. When you have morons stuffing an entire jogging suit and towel into the “swimsuit spinner” you can’t expect it to last forever.

Swim:
500 Free warm-up
5 x ( 200 Free, 100 Kick)
200 Free warm-down
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2200 yards

I was sort of upset about learning that Kyle only has one more day at Bungee Labs, so I decided to hit the pool after work. When I arrived, the dance of the sea cows was well underway. I had forgotten about them. It was 7:40. The sea cow class starts at 6:45. I figured I could wait 5 minutes in the hot tub until they were done (they take out the lane lines, so it’s nigh impossible to swim while they are doing their thing). By 7:50 I was starting to get upset that they were still going. I was also getting sick of sitting in the hot tub. I decided to sit in the sauna for the last few minutes before they finally left around 8:00.

Swim:
300 Free warm-up
5 x 100 Free @ 2:15 (coming in at 1:15) — it’s a miracle that they finally fixed the clock
5 x 50 Kick @ 1:20 (coming in at 0:55)
5 x 100 Free @ 2:15 (coming in at 1:20)
5 x 50 Kick @ 1:30 (coming in at 1:00)
300 Free warm-down
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2100 yards

Instead of going to the gym during lunch, a bunch of us piled in my car and headed to Betos in American Fork to meet up with Joe. He seems to be enjoying his new job. Of course, going to lunch isn’t the same as going to the gym, so I decided to swim after work.

I had forgotten that the whales do their water aerobics on Tuesday and Thursday nights. I had also forgotten just how many whales show up after the beginning of the new year. I think they set a record tonight. There were about 30 whales dancing in the pool when I arrived at 7:30. Trying to swim through their waves was very much like swimming in the ocean… except instead of salt water I had to put up with perfume, deodorant, and hair-spray water. I would choose salt water any day.

Swim:
300 Free Warm-Up
8 x 100 Free @ 2:05 (coming in between 1:15 and 1:20)
100 Free easy
6 x 50 Kick @ 1:30 (coming in @ 1:00)
100 Free Warm-Down
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1750 Yards